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The researcher used a descriptive survey method with documentary analysis and questionnaires to gather information about the performance of Tomas Claudio Colleges' criminology students on the criminologist licensure examination. Questionnaires were distributed to 40 past exam takers and data was collected from examination results. Statistical analysis including frequencies, means, and Likert scales were used to determine factors related to exam performance.

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Materials & Methods

The researcher used a descriptive survey method with documentary analysis and questionnaires to gather information about the performance of Tomas Claudio Colleges' criminology students on the criminologist licensure examination. Questionnaires were distributed to 40 past exam takers and data was collected from examination results. Statistical analysis including frequencies, means, and Likert scales were used to determine factors related to exam performance.

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Methods/Materials

The researcher utilized the descriptive survey method employing

documentary analysis and prepared questionnaire check-list to be able to

gather information necessary for the study. This method pursued to determine

the status of a phenomenon, describes the current situation, determine the

nature prevailing conditions or practices and seeks accurate description of

activities, objectives, persons and processes (Wikipedia). It describes further as

a method of determining the nature of situation, as it exists in the time of the

study. According to Calmorin (2010) the descriptive survey design is employed

to gather information about the present or existing conditions.

This method of research is most appropriate in this study because the

study sought to determine the performance of the Tomas Claudio Colleges in

the Criminology Licensure Examination as an accredited higher education

institution in the province of Rizal. The collection of data needed for the

analysis of the performance of the TCC and survey-interview conducted in the

locale of the study with 40 respondents coming from the examinees of the TCC

who took the criminologist licensure examination on year 2016-2017.

The researcher started to present title for the approval of research

instructor. Upon approval of the thesis title, the researcher reviewed all the

collected data from the PRC results and additional information using internet

and searching from the school library, books, published and unpublished
materials, thesis and all other available sources that may help to make the

research study.

The researcher prepared a checklist-questionnaire for gathering needed

data from the respondents. Revisions and modifications of instrument were

made in the questionnaire-checklist upon approval. The instrument was

subjected to content validation through the assistance of professional lecturers

and experts in the field of research. Suggestions and other corrective measures

were incorporated in the final form as everything is properly scrutinized by

concerned persons knowledgeable in the field of research evaluation.

Researcher sent a request letter to the President of the Institution and to

the Dean of Criminology Department to conduct and distribute the

questionnaires to the respondents. Researcher asked the approval of the

president of the school as well as the Dean of the College of criminology to

conduct the study.

The questionnaire-checklist was administered to the respondents by

picking them one by one instead of group because of the availability of time of

respondents. The data gathered was encoded, tabulated, analyzed and

interpret base on the sub-problems that used in the interpretation of data.

The statistical tools used for describing the data are item mean and the

Likert Scale. The Likert scale was used for the questionnaire that requires

responses from ranges of the tool. In answering the problem stated in the

study, the following statistical tools were applied:


To determine the Performance of Tomas Claudio Colleges in the

criminologist licensure examination frequency distribution was used.

To determine the success and limiting factors that contribute on the

performance of the Criminology students in licensure examination weighted

mean was utilized.

Most of the questions required responses using the Likert scale with four

options. The four-point Likert Scale was used in categorizing the success and

limiting factors that contributes to the performance of the students in the

criminologist licensure examination. The Students asked to rate each item

using a four-point scale as follows:

Scale Range Verbal Interpretation

4 3.26 – 4.00 Strongly Agree

3 2.51 – 3.25 Somewhat Agree

2 1.76 – 2.50 Somewhat Disagree

1 1.01 – 1.75 Strongly Disagree

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